Darren Clarke (born 1983) is a retired Irish

gaelic football Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score ...

er from

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. He played with his local club St Mary's from juvenile level until 2008, when he joined Dublin side St Sylvester's. He returned to the

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club in 2013. He was a member of the

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senior squad from 2004 until 2014. Clarke won

Railway Cup The GAA Interprovincial Championship () or Railway Cup (''Corn an Iarnróid'') is the name of two annual Gaelic football and hurling competitions held between the provinces of Ireland. The Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster GAA teams are co ...

honours with

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in 2006. He retired from club football at the end of the 2023 season.

Honours

;County * National Football League Division 2 (1):

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

* National Football League Division 3 (1):

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

Tommy Murphy Cup The Tommy Murphy Cup was a Gaelic football competition, featuring senior county teams eliminated from the early stages of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and also Kilkenny county football team, Kilkenny when not fielding a team in t ...

(1):

O'Byrne Cup The O'Byrne Cup is a Gaelic football competition organized by the Leinster GAA and first staged in 1954. History The competition is named in honour of Matt Byrne (b. 14 February 1870), a former Wicklow GAA club and county officer. By virtue of ...

(1):

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

*Owen Treacy Cup (1): 2006 ;Club *

Louth Senior Football Championship The Louth Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association competition organised by Louth GAA among the top Gaelic football clubs in County Louth, Ireland. The winning club qualifies to represent the county in the Leinster ...

(2): 2022, 2023 *

Cardinal O'Donnell Cup The Cardinal O'Donnell Cup is an annual senior league competition organised by Louth GAA for the Division 1 teams in Gaelic football in County Louth. Format All 12 teams play each other once, with the top four traditionally qualifying for the se ...

(2): 2002, 2021, *

Paddy Sheelan Cup The Paddy Sheelan Cup is an annual subsidiary league competition organised by Louth GAA for Senior and Intermediate grade Gaelic football clubs in County Louth. History The competition was launched in 1952 and Dundalk Gaels were the first win ...

(3): 2016, 2018, 2021 *Louth Senior Football League Division 1B (1): 2004 * Dublin Senior Football League (1): 2010 *Dublin Senior B Football Championship (1): 2008 *St Vincent de Paul Cup (2): 2008, 2009 ;Province *

(1): 2006

References

Living people Louth inter-county Gaelic footballers Leinster inter-provincial Gaelic footballers St Mary's (Louth) Gaelic footballers St Sylvester's Gaelic footballers 1983 births {{Dublin-gaelic-football-bio-stub